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Another Day Another LOW/HYPO!!!

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Neckarski_94

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Woke up automatically took a glance at my Apple Watch…you guessed it CGM says LOW! Go to the toilet wash my hands. I go downstairs to check my BG with a finger prick and I am 4.7. CGM says 4.8 so BANG on accurate!

Could have been a genuine hypo or maybe a compression LOW from laying on my sensor in my sleep! SCARY I have a feeling just one of these days I’m not gonna wake up!

HATE this!!! HATE being diabetic!!!


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This going low to around 4.7 has happened to me a number of times. I have concluded that I better not get up too late in the mornings to ensure my BG goes neither too high, nor too low before I have chance to correct the excesses. Your graph does look like you are going to extremes. I would look at what might be causing that? Maybe, what you are eating, or maybe the amount of insulin you are injecting? Or exercise you did earlier in the previous day? etc etc. Look at your condition from a curiosity point of view, and see what you can learn - that way instead of this being a nuisance, it can become an interesting challenge.... This may be a difficult shift, and certainly I would much prefer not to have this Type 1 diagnosis!
 
LionChild said:
This going low to around 4.7 has happened to me a number of times. I have concluded that I better not get up too late in the mornings to ensure my BG goes neither too high, nor too low before I have chance to correct the excesses. Your graph does look like you are going to extremes. I would look at what might be causing that? Maybe, what you are eating, or maybe the amount of insulin you are injecting? Or exercise you did earlier in the previous day? etc etc. Look at your condition from a curiosity point of view, and see what you can learn - that way instead of this being a nuisance, it can become an interesting challenge.... This may be a difficult shift, and certainly I would much prefer not to have this Type 1 diagnosis!
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Yesterday I didn’t eat a lot (too hot and didn’t feel hungry plus injection anxiety) Didn’t exercise…again too hot!
 
Hi @Neckarski_94

The only way you are going to know for sure is to actually wake up and check with your meter - looking at how erratic the graph is it does look like a compression low. Always go by how you feel upon waking too, if you feel like you went out and partied hard the night before then it would be a low.
 
It's not a good idea to have to go downstairs to get your blood testing kit. If you're hypo, you could easily fall down the stairs and end up seriously injured, with no kit or hypo treatment to hand.

It's important to keep your testing kit, and hypo treatment on your bedside table. Wake up with a serious hypo, you can treat safely.
 
Juicyj said:
Hi @Neckarski_94

The only way you are going to know for sure is to actually wake up and check with your meter - looking at how erratic the graph is it does look like a compression low. Always go by how you feel upon waking too, if you feel like you went out and partied hard the night before then it would be a low.
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I definitely didn’t feel like I’d been out and partied hard!
 
Hopeful34 said:
It's important to keep your testing kit, and hypo treatment on your bedside table. Wake up with a serious hypo, you can treat safely.
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That might be a problem…I don’t have a bedside table!
 
Neckarski_94 said:
That might be a problem…I don’t have a bedside table!
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You can get a bedside table or any little table for less than £10 from a lot of places IKEA, B&M etc, I got a folding stool for a temporary bedside table from IKEA for £4.99, failing that put them on the floor beside your bed. Members have suggested to you numerous times that you need your tester & hypo kit with you at all times. It’s good advice


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Keep your testing kit and glucose tabs under the bed - it's easier to reach than fumbling around in the dark with a drawer, I keep mine under the bed as I know when I am low I am pretty much out of it but knowing it's within arms reach makes it easier to grab and test + treat. Compression lows happen to all of us, it's knowing how to read it the next morning so you understand it's nothing to worry about. I know when i've been low during the night though, the banging headache is a giveaway sign.
 
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